As Canadians prepare to celebrate the nation's 147th birthday, newly released demographic data show how rapidly the complexion of our 35 million residents is changing — breathing new fire into the debate over whether the term "visible minority" ought to be dropped from the Canadian lexicon.

TORONTO — Ezra Levant had what he describes as a “bombshell moment” at the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal hearing in 2008, when Khurrum Awan testified that he and his fellow students hadn’t had time to ask Maclean’s magazine for a rebuttal article by an author of their choice — this in stark contrast to what the students had been publicly saying for months about having demanded an article by a “mutually agreeable author.

Every generation gets the Bonnie and Clyde it deserves. Arthur Penn’s 1967 American crime film, starring a young Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, spoke to a generation of disaffected young moviegoers during the Vietnam War, the battle for civil rights and a tectonic shift in social and cultural attitudes at the time.

MONCTON, N.B. — Three people have been arrested in Moncton, N.B., for allegedly violating a court injunction preventing anyone from interfering with shale gas exploration work being conducted by SWN Resources.

Dogs don’t just see the world from their own, lower-to-the-ground perspective, David Suzuki says in the opening moments of Toronto filmmakers Donna and Daniel Zuckerbrot’s charming, lighthearted The Nature of Things program A Dog’s Life.

WASHINGTON — Five prominent Canadian environmentalists told Washington lawmakers this week that the Keystone XL pipeline will lead to such a huge growth in oilsands' carbon emissions, it will help tip the world into catastrophic climate change.